Palythoa among zoanthids?

CPdude

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I recently just noticed this. On the left of the picture are my green zoanthids. And on the right is what I assume to be palythoas? Unless those are just my zoanthids fully opened. They also have noticable different patterns. So are these palythoas on the right? Thanks!
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They all look the same to me, but the ones on the right haven't really colored up yet. I'm assuming they're receiving less light than the others?
 
They all look the same to me, but the ones on the right haven't really colored up yet. I'm assuming they're receiving less light than the others?
I see those same polyps even at the top of the rock. They are fully opened like a palythoa while my zoanthid polyps are not opened like them. They may not be palythoas but another kind of zoanthid? I bought this zoanthids labelled as green zoas. But i saw a few polyps with red in the centre and being brighter than the rest. The palythoa looking ones have a few differences than the rest of the green zoas, their pattern in like a star in the centre while the green zoanthids have a circle instead. They are also darker and more spread out tentacles then the greens. Could I have 3 zoa types all together? Haha.

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